In Pic: Sushant Singh Rajput (Pic/Instagram)
The Delhi High Court has posted for February 12, 2024, a plea by Krishna Kishore Singh, the father of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, against a single-judge bench's order rejecting his plea to halt the continued streaming of film "Nyay: The Justice", which is reportedly based on his son's life.
A division bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Ravinder Dudeja granted all the parties in the plea time to file their replies.
In August, a division bench of Justices Varma and Dharmesh Sharma had issued a notice on Krishna Kishore Singh's appeal against Justice C. Hari Shankar's order to several people.
Justice C Hari Shankar dismissed the plea of Sushant's father saying, "To fasten a legal right, on something as fleeting as a celebrity, appears to be an oxymoron". He added, "Law cannot allow itself to be a vehicle to promote celebrity culture."
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"It does not appear permissible, in our constitutional scheme which guarantees equality to individuals and in which equality is a cherished preambular goal, to countenance an extra bundle of rights which would be available for enjoyment only to celebrities," the court said.
The court in its judgement added that the right to privacy, the right to publicity, and the personality rights vested in Sushant Singh Rajput are not heritable. They died with the death of the actor. "The said rights, therefore, did not survive for espousal by the plaintiff," the court said.
In conclusion, the court ruled that a ban could not be requested at this time since the film had already been released on one platform and was likely watched by thousands of people.
Meanwhile, a year after Sushant's death, âNyay: The Justice' was released on an OTT platform in June 2021. On June 14, 2020, Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Bandra apartment. There have been several speculations surrounding his death. CBI is still investigating the case.
He was last seen in the film 'Dil Bechara,' which was released on July 24, 2020, over a month after his untimely death. Sushant was a popular TV actor who played Manav in the serial 'Pavitra Rishta'. He made his Bollywood Debut with 'Kai Po Che'. The actor shot to stardom after appearing in the film 'Chhichhore' opposite Shraddha Kapoor. He also appeared in 'Kedarnath,' with Sara Ali Khan. The actor was adored by his fans, who never missed an opportunity to make him trend on Twitter.
(With Inputs IANS)
